HNTE - CH. 1

[warlokkz]

Introduction: Applications & Motivation

[warlokkz]

Personally, I want to have understand just enough to dive into code and attempt to build some use case that could be ported elsewhere (nerves & IoT or NLP). Its possible that the TWEANN model he implements is dated, considering the project is almost 4 years old - so maybe it won't even have any practical use. Regardless of that, it looks easy to get into because he claims the book to be a 'friendly step-by-step' guide to writing a complicated Erlang program that could be ported to Elixir.

Looking at the chapters briefly, he doesn't jump into code until Chapter 6. While I think that the preceding chapters are written to define a mental path for development, perhaps it could be a better use of time to skim those, jump right into code, and lookup any references to his previous chapters when doing the implementations if we get stuck.

Potential Applications:

• Pairing it with Nerves & Predictive IoT
• Video Game A.I.
• An A.I. designer (imagine scraping DOM elements/styles from websites that users input and creating a design based off that, like https://www.logojoy.com/ ) (edited)